RIT Library Resources

The information and resources identified in this guide are intended to help support your research needs in Writing Seminar. As an RIT Dubai student, you have access to the many resources available through the RIT Library in addition to the resources at your campus library. The information below will help you search and locate books using either Summon or the Library catalog.

Locating Books in Summon

Locating Books in Summon:

After you have generated your results list in Summon, look at the left margin column to select the options for filtering your results. Your original results list will likely contain sources that are books (print and electronic), journal articles, newspaper articles, magazines, streamed media, etc. If you are interested in focusing your results to only books, choose the "Book/Ebook" option to filter your results to only that type of source.

Locating E-Books in Summon:

The RIT Library has a continually growing collection of e-books in a diverse range of subject areas. You can easily locate e-books using the refinement filters within Summon. Conduct your Summon search, refine your search to "items with full text online" and limit the content type to "Books/ebook". Your list of results will now be only e-books.